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Friday, January 10, 2014

NEW DISCOVERY: An unidentified Royal statue head found in Luxor

The
Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission unearthed a large granite
head of a statue of an unidentified New Kingdom king during routine excavation
at King Thutmose III’s funerary temple on Luxor’s west bank. Mohamed
Abdel-Maqsoud, head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Section, explained that the head is 29.6cm high, 24.3cm
wide and 26.9cm deep. The head depicts a round face of a royal figure, not
identified yet, wearing a wig, with traces of a broken nose, and two long ears
that each reach 8cm. The eyes, he continued, have traces of kohl, with thick
eyebrows.

Abdel-Maqsoud
said that the head was found buried in sand in a pit on the northern side of
the 2nd court of the temple. Studies are underway in an attempt to determine
which New Kingdom king it belongs to.

The
temple of Thutmose III is a very small temple located beside the temple of
Queen Hatshepsut at Al Deir Al-Bahari. It was first discovered in February 1962
during routine restoration work carried out by a Polish excavation mission of
the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology led by archaeologist KazimierzMichalowski.

The
temple is poorly preserved and was dedicated to god Amun-Re. Although Thutmose III’s actual funerary
temple Henkhet-Ankh is located a short distance away, such a temple had played
some role within the king’s funerary cult.